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How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
Scroll.in
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

SBS
Indigenous cancer stats worse than thought, study says
SBS
Indigenous Australians are dying from lung cancer at eight times the rate of non-indigenous people, with concerns remoteness and disadvantage are hampering access to treatment. The findings come from a University of Sydney study looking at the ...

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Indigenous cancer stats worse than thought
The Australian
"When we stratified for incidence by socio-economic disadvantage, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were more than four times likely to receive a lung cancer diagnosis and also die from their lung cancer," lead researcher Kalinda Griffiths ...

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Indigenous cancer stats worse than thought
NT News
Indigenous Australians are dying from lung cancer at eight times the rate of non-indigenous people, with concerns remoteness and disadvantage are hampering access to treatment. The findings come from a University of Sydney study looking at the ...

Independent Australia
Utopia: The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia
Independent Australia
Nine years after the Howard Government's "Intervention", conditions are dire for Indigenous Australians who are "denied consistent running water, sanitation and power. That basic sustenance should join this list is not surprising", says John Pilger. I ...

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The Advertiser
Flying the flag in mum's honour
The Advertiser
It is also why Campbelltown Council's backflip last week on a decision not to fly the Aboriginal flag outside its chambers means so much to him. “I grew up for a long time knowing I was Aboriginal, but not having a strong sense of identity about my ...

Cross-Cultural Training Call
Pro Bono Australia
There is desperate need for proper cross-cultural training for people who work with Indigenous clients and communities, according author and community educator, Richard Trudgen. Trudgen, the author of Why Warriors Lie Down and Die and a community ...

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The Australian
Jim Hagan, pioneering indigenous activist, dies at 83
The Australian
In 1964, he was a founding member of the Cunnamulla Australian Native Welfare Association, in west Queensland, and among the first local indigenous people to join the Australian Labor Party. A father of five, Mr Hagan sought elected office after Gough ...

Independent Australia
Utopia: The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia
Independent Australia
Nine years after the Howard Government's "intervention" conditions are dire for Indigenous Australians who are "denied consistent running water, sanitation and power. That basic sustenance should join this list is not surprising", says John Pilger. I ...

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Starvation of Indigenous in Australia. Utopia's Dirty Secret
teleSUR English
Black incarceration in Australia is greater than that of Black people in Apartheid South Africa. Indigenous people go to prison, are beaten up in custody and die in custody as a matter of routine. In despairing communities, children as young as 10 take ...
Utopia residents hungry, but this isn't newsGreen Left Weekly

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teleSUR English
Starvation of Indigenous in Australia. Utopia's Dirty Secret
teleSUR English
Black incarceration in Australia is greater than that of Black people in Apartheid South Africa. Indigenous people go to prison, are beaten up in custody and die in custody as a matter of routine. In despairing communities, children as young as 10 take ...

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Is There a Place for Indigenous Healers in Australia's Health System?
Yahoo News
It's Friday night and still over 35 degrees Celsius in the town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. It is market night, and the pubs and streets are full of people. I hear glass shattering and a man and woman yelling at each other in ...

Green Left Weekly
Cuban Aboriginal literacy program success
Green Left Weekly
More than 80 people packed into a lecture theatre at Sydney University on March 31 for a public forum entitled: "Increasing Aboriginal literacy: The Cuban 'Yes I Can!' literacy campaign in Australia". The forum was organised by the Australia-Cuba ...

Huffington Post Australia
Australia Needed To Take A Goodes Look At Itself
Huffington Post Australia
I've spoken to people who have never even met Goodes who say they were so affected they could hardly get out of bed because of the things people were saying about Indigenous people that week. It made us sick and it polarized our country. Everyone was ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding
The Guardian
A coalition of Indigenous ranger groups are ramping up their campaign for more government support before the federal budget, claiming the government's program is working, but needs to be expanded if Australia is to close the gap on Indigenous ...

The Guardian
Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding
The Guardian
A coalition of Indigenous ranger groups are ramping up their campaign for more government support before the federal budget, claiming the government's program is working, but needs to be expanded if Australia is to close the gap on Indigenous ...

Adelaide Crows
Crows unveil new Indigenous jumper
Adelaide Crows
The Crows will wear a jumper designed by the aunt of Eddie Betts in Indigenous Round this year. Renowned Australian Aboriginal artist, Susie Betts, created the vibrant and culturally significant artwork for the jumper, which will be on show against ...

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News article reignites Australia's 'history wars'
The Straits Times
The article referred to language guidelines issued by one of Australia's top universities, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), which advised students and staff on how to discuss Australian history without offending the country's Aboriginal people.

Mongabay.com
Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...

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Mongabay.com
Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...

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